Transcript for 'Non-Verbal and Malnourished' Kids Removed From Filthy Home

A disturbing case of child abuse and neglect that never should have been allowed to happen. Inside his Denver home police discovered three filthy neglected and starving young boys ages four to six. Didn't speak and communicated by renting to each other. Police are tipped off when a fourth brother two years -- at a hospital on -- and -- of cigarette smoke. But makes all this worst the parents were no to child services meeting guilty 2006 for misdemeanor child abuse. A neighbor says he called police recently and is outraged the abuse went on so long. The fact that conditions. Are reported so deplorable. Suggests that social services failed to. -- all four children are now in protective custody to parents faced felony child abuse charges.

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